Today, a nice server-side update that will improve the “sorting by title” for your books.
A bit of background:
Our CLZ Books mobile app and the CLZ Books Web software have always include a Sort Title field, right under the Title field in the Edit Book screen. You can use it to control the sorting of your books when the app is set to sort by Author/Title.
For example, a book titled “The Client” will sort under the “T’s” by default. But if you change the Sort Title to just “Client” (removing “The”), it will sort nicely in the C section where it belongs.
However, you needed to do that manually for all books where is was applicable.
But not anymore!
Automatic Sort Titles from Core
As of today, our CLZ Core delivers automatic Sort Titles for all books where a sort title is applicable (that is, where it would be different from the regular title).
We created a smart script that recognizes articles like “The ” and “A ” at the start of titles, then generates a Sort Title with that article removed. The script not only recognizes the English articles “The ” and “A “, but also German “Die/Der/Das”, Dutch “De/Het/Een”, French “Le/La/L’/Un/Une/Des/Du” etc…
In the past few days, we have ran the script on our entire database (over 50 million books) and the results are now LIVE in Core.